The Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, presented a pilot program that includes detection systems.
The Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heberannounced a pilot plan that intends to use Artificial Intelligent (AI) to prevent crimes through application in surveillance cameras and the installation of analytics software.
Based on the systems of Israel and Buenos Airesthe leader presented this Tuesday the pilot plan of the Ministry of the Interior that aims to use Artificial Intelligence to prevent crimes in the Uruguay. “We are doing a pilot plan. The possibility that the operator is alerted by artificial intelligence, that the machine watches and that we teach it,” Heber explained.
The minister established that the idea is that “the possibility of preventing crime is built.” For this, he stressed the need to give the instructions where “the machine is learning and the operator is learning”. In short, the AI will alert the official when there is a crime or a suspicious situation. For this, it will be necessary to tell the software which characteristics are considered “suspicious”.
With this, the idea is that the operator is not looking at the cameras all the time, but that Artificial Intelligence will allow the official to pay attention only to those situations that are suspicious.
Cameras and technology
The minister assured that in Montevideo Security cameras will continue to be added. “We received Montevideo with 3,000 cameras. We expanded to 4,000. We gave this push of 2,100 more cameras. We are going to finish with 6,000 in the administration,” the leader explained. On the other hand, he added that sensors capable of detecting where the shots come from will be acquired, which would be in contact with the cameras and the artificial intelligence.
Heber explained that security cameras were not previously installed in the neighborhoods in the area of Santiago Vazquez – place where he gave the speech opening and anticipated the pilot plan – because there was no fiber optics, making it impossible for them to install cameras. “In the coming years we have to continue installing cameras because they are an indispensable element to deter crime and serve as an element of evidence,” he said.
Regarding the complaints of the neighbors regarding the unsafety, The minister assured that the ministry is working and understands the population’s concerns. “I am also worried. With these tools (cameras) we can protect them. We cannot solve all the problems in five years, but we have been going down (the crimes)”, the minister remarked.
Source: Ambito
